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The last frontier for global non-communicable disease action: The emergency department—A cross-sectional study from East Africa
Despite Emergency Departments constituting the primary site for presentation of patients with acute non-communicable diseases (NCDs), related complications (such as heart attacks, strokes, diabetes complications or breathing difficulties), mental illness and injury-related complaints, research in these areas in international populations continues to lag in focus. Yale emergency medicine faculty, Dr. Christine Ngaruiya and her team conducted the largest epidemiological study on the burden of leading NCDs and NCD risk factors that has been done to date in an African Emergency Department (ED). The study occurred at the largest ED in East Africa (located in Kenya), which provides care for a wide patient population, including Kenyans and other East Africans, “medical tourists,” and refugees from across Africa.
Source: PLOS One